Here, for example, is
Good-bye to a Rowdy Rooster: “Too cocky by far / He head-butted a car.” The illustration
shows the back end of a rooster whose head is stuck in the front end of a car.

And
Ciao, Cow: “This grave is peaceful / The tombstone shaded / But I’m not here — I’ve been
cream-ated.”

Crabby Tabby consists of just six words: “She always loved a good yarn,” with the rest of
the tale told in Timmins’ sketch of Tabby looking interested in a yellow ball of yarn in the middle
of the road — and in the path of the vehicle that Rowdy Rooster head-butted.

In the spirit of a creepy black-and-white movie, this story follows carrot-loving Jasper Rabbit
as he almost empties a carrot field, then imagines (or does he?) that the remaining carrots are
coming for him. All of Brown’s illustrations are in black and white — except the orange carrots
that seem to be plotting revenge.

The gentle, repetitive story follows Beggars Night as costumed children deal with minor scares,
have fun and remember their manners. Hood’s rhyming text works nicely with Henry’s realistic
watercolors.